On 4/5/06, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
With images, though, there has grown this bizarre culture that we must not delete anything until we have a consensus to do so. This is partly because images can't be easily restored, and there is some legitimacy to that as a factor in how we do things, but I think it has gotten much worse. Wildly inappropriate images which do not even have a majority support for keeping are kept in articles in a way that similarly inappropriate text would be shot on sight.
I think this is in fact a (if not the) major cause of this controversy. I'm not at all surprised that many users are very nervous about image deletion: we still remember when CSD I4 was added in September and as a consequence people had to go to Answers.com and other mirrors to look for copies of hastily deleted images. I don't know if any free images were actually permanently lost because of that, but it wouldn't surprise me at all either.
If I read Jimbo correctly, he's just saying that while the debate is happening, the image should not be linked to from any articles. Not necessarily that the image should be "permanently" deleted. I'm basing this on "...are kept in articles..."
Steve